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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'I can&apos;t sign that.',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/04/27.jpg" alt="A dead thistle" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="480"/>
<section id="loan">
	<h2>Loan</h2>
	<p>
		My workmate emailed me today that they want to put off starting to pay me back until the pay day after next.
		That&apos;s perfectly fine.
		What I said before about having a time frame on repayment might be out the window though.
		There&apos;s no way to know how many times they&apos;ll want to put it off.
	</p>
	<p>
		This is especially true due to their mindset.
		They&apos;d asked me about how to save, and the biggest thing I told them was that they can&apos;t treat pay day as special.
		They tend to spend a lot when they have money, which results in them not having money.
		I told them that if they can&apos;t afford something on the day before pay day, they can&apos;t afford it on pay day either, and explained that if they think of pay day as this magical time of the month when they have money, they&apos;ll never be able to save much of anything.
		They told me they actually already understand that, but that when they have money in hand, it&apos;s difficult for them to avoid spending it.
		It sounds like they didn&apos;t actually need tips from me on saving money.
		What they need is practice in self-control!
		But it&apos;s not my job to try to force them into that.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religion</h2>
	<p>
		The missionaries sent me an email saying they couldn&apos;t make it because they&apos;ve got a baptism.
		They apologised for the short notice, but said they hoped to see me at the baptism.
		I really, <strong>*really*</strong> didn&apos;t want to go.
		I mean, sure, I&apos;d love to see what they had to say while it was going down.
		However, Thursday was so busy that I&apos;m still trying to catch up.
		Y&apos;know, I still hadn&apos;t completely finished writing my journal entry for that day!
		(I did get that finished today though, during the time we&apos;d been scheduled to meet.)
		And then there&apos;s also my coursework I need to complete.
		I&apos;ve got to get as much of it done as I can before Tuesday.
		It&apos;s due Tuesday, but also, I&apos;ve got another appointment in Eugene on Tuesday.
		This time, for $a[laser] hair removal.
		This week simply isn&apos;t a good week for adding more things to get done.
	</p>
	<p>
		I debated back and forth for a bit as to whether it was my responsibility to go.
		Did I owe it to them to check it out?
		I decided whether I owe it or not, I can&apos;t really afford to go.
		So somewhat reluctantly, I wrote back a letter explaining how busy Thursday had been, and that I needed to catch up.
		I then worked in a part that with school in session, it&apos;s difficult to work spur of the moment outings into my schedule, especially bike trips all the way out to Eugene.
		After sending the letter though, I realised that owe them nothing.
		They cancelled on me, not the other way around, and I never agreed to attend a second baptism at all, let alone attend one this week, which I knew would be busy before it&apos;d even started.
		I&apos;m also already giving them three of my morning each week.
		Except only two this week, as they cancelled on me.
		They meet at my place twice each week, plus I attend church like they want me to.
		All while I&apos;ve got other things to get done.
		I already give them more of my time than I realistically should, especially given that I&apos;ve already proven their religion to be false.
		My evidence isn&apos;t even the most-compelling evidence against the religion.
		Other people have disproved Christianity so utterly convincingly that anyone who sees what they have to say and still believes is a a complete twit.
		I&apos;m just here to learn what they believe so I can better know what it is people believe in.
		They can&apos;t save my soul, because souls aren&apos;t even real.
		(For the record though, disproving Christianity doesn&apos;t disprove the existence of souls.
		That&apos;s a separate belief of mine with much less evidence behind it.)
	</p>
</section>
<section id="diet">
	
	<p>
		I ate one baked potato, with no butter, sour cream, or any of that stuff.
		I did use seasoning salt to make it taste better though.
		A bit later, I had 23 grams of corn chips and 144 grams of salsa.
		I found myself fatigued as I biked to work, so when I got there, I didn&apos;t wait to eat the energy bar I&apos;d packed just in case I&apos;d need it.
		I thought I&apos;d brought two, but I hadn&apos;t, so I ended up eating four breadsticks on my break.
		Instead of the cheese that normally comes on them though, I put seasoning salt, and I didn&apos;t eat the full order of eight breadsticks.
		I put the other four in my freezer for another time.
		For dinner, I cooked spinach-infused spaghetti in a sauce made from soy milk and dairy-free cheese.
		The dish totalled 325 grams.
	</p>
	<p>
		Much of the unhealthy stuff I eat is due to not having time to prepare anything, so I got a couple sandwiches prepared for tomorrow, one for breakfast and one to eat at work.
		I often don&apos;t have time to cook when I need food, but I started the veggie patties cooking, then worked on other things until they finished.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="prayer">
	<h2>Prayer impressions log</h2>
	<p>
		I prayed that I would be reading the eighth chapter of Genesis, which seems to be a continuation of the Noah&apos;s ark arc.
		I said I was interested to see what Jesus has to teach me in that chapter, and that in particular, I thought this was the section in which Jesus gives permission for humans to eat other animals.
		I mentioned that that would be a useful passage to have when dealing with Summer, though that&apos;s probably never going to come up, as Summer and I don&apos;t really have a relationship any more.
		(For the record, this chapter didn&apos;t have the passage I&apos;d mentioned after all.)
		In my mind after praying, I saw salsa.
		I was feeling a bit hungry at the moment.
	</p>
	<p>
		I prayed that this chapter certainly was enlightening, and that Jesus forgot to have Noah save the plants and fungi.
		But also, that there wasn&apos;t enough space on the boat even for just all the animals, so making sure to get seeds of every type and spore-containing fungi of every type would have taxed his space further.
		As I prayed, I saw in my mind a bright red cardinal with its black eye markings, hopping between branches in an apple tree.
		There was a large apple, part red and part yellow-green.
		I don&apos;t know what type of apple that is, but they&apos;re one of the types that&apos;s rather common in grocery stores.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;m not aware of any specific security issues when it comes to caching.
			The main thing I can think of is that if you cache a version of the page containing sensitive information as the main version of the page, you might send sensitive information to people that shouldn&apos;t have it.
			I&apos;m not sure how easy it is to misconfigure your website that badly though.
		</p>
		<p>
			I would say that caching sensitive information at all would open a vector for attack, but I don&apos;t think it really does.
			I mean, a cracker could break into the cache, but the server needs to store the login credentials for the database to be able to access the database anyway.
			Those credentials would be as easy to copy as cache data, but way more enticing and useful.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			How is &quot;cache&quot; as in stockpile pronounced then?
			I thought that was also pronounced like &quot;cash&quot;.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I know what you mean.
			So many websites load so agonisingly slowly, then when they finally do load, you see that the loading speed was brought to a crawl by the inclusion of tonnes of extra resources such as large images and JavaScript that you really don&apos;t care about.
			The worst offenders are the pages that pretty much only include JavaScript, then use the JavaScript to load in everything else.
			For people with JavaScript disabled, it makes the pages unusable.
			It&apos;s an unacceptable practice for that reason.
			But even for people with JavaScript enabled, it makes the loading of the page slow to a crawl.
			While caching can really help with speed, basic Web design skills are needed too.
			Awful pages built by incompetent developers can&apos;t be saved even by caches.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="paperwork">
	<h2>Paperwork</h2>
	<p>
		It looks like part of the &quot;survey&quot; the dietician wants me to fill out is actually a contract saying I will call ahead if something comes up and I can&apos;t make it to an appointment.
		Um.
		No.
		I&apos;m not signing that.
		Give me a form saying I&apos;ll email you, and sure, I&apos;ll sign that.
		You&apos;ll need to tell me what email address to reach you at first though.
		Or give me a form saying I&apos;ll make a best-effort attempt to come in and tell you in person, and sure, I&apos;ll sign that one as well, though I can&apos;t come in to let you know if something unexpected and urgent comes up, as it takes me about an hour to bike there and another hour to bike back.
		But no.
		I&apos;m not buying into your telephone-centric form.
		I do not have telephone service, nor should I <strong>*need*</strong> telephone service.
	</p>
	<p>
		I think what I&apos;ll do is copy the other part of the survey, which is on another page stapled to the contract, and fill that out.
		Copying it to a new paper will allow me to turn it in without staple holes.
		I think it&apos;ll be less likely for the missing contract to be noticed that way, though there&apos;s still a very good chance it&apos;ll get noticed anyway and I&apos;ll need to explain exactly why I can&apos;t sign that.
		Hopefully not signing it won&apos;t get me booted from the class.
	</p>
</section>
END
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